Vitaly Bragilevsky

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Head of Rust Ecosystem at JetBrains

I’m not a competitive programmer—far from it. I never received formal education in advanced algorithms and data structures. In fact, I can’t even implement Dijkstra’s algorithm without referring to Wikipedia. Yet, I still participate in Advent of Code competitions. I’ve never made it onto an official leaderboard; I’m too slow for that. My solutions are rarely, if ever, the best in class. Sometimes, I compare them to those shared on GitHub, Reddit, or X, and mine are always longer, less efficient, and more ad hoc. But I still enjoy solving those puzzles. This blog post is for people like me—those who love the process and want to use RustRover, JetBrains’ Rust IDE, to make the experience even better.